Where does consciousness fit in physics?

[Leigha]

I didn't say consciousness is reducible to physics, that's not at all what the thread title question is asking.

[Syne]

That's the only way anything fits in, or can be explained by, a reductive science. So......what do you mean then?

It's sounding like you don't even know.

[Leigha]

Do you believe that consciousness has a direct correlation or tie to our physical world? I believe it does. That is where I was going with this thread, but how much of that can be explained by science is yet to be agreed upon by anyone.

[Syne]

Correlation? Sure. The physical world and consciousness do interact and coexist. Causation? No evidence to confirm it does.

[Leigha]

No evidence to confirm that consciousness originates from the physical?

[Syne]

No evidence to confirm that consciousness originates from the physical?

Depends. Did you decide which definition of "consciousness" you were talking about? If just observed conscious behavior, rather than experienced awareness, of course it does, since observable physical behavior relies on functioning physiology.

I suspect you may be equivocating.